Station of the Week: The Weeknd Celebrates Another Massive Year!
Canadian-born Abel Makkonen Tesfaye — known to most as the prolific pop singer-songwriter, The Weeknd — has had a successful career thus far. His 2013 debut studio album Kiss Land was positively received by critics, and his 2015 LP “Beauty Behind The Madness” became the No. 1 album on the US Billboard 200 chart, including No. 1 singles “The Hills” and “Can’t Feel My Face.” The songs simultaneously held top spots on the Billboard R&B charts, making Tesfaye the first artist in history to achieve this feat.
The Weeknd’s incredible success continued well into 2016: in September, The Weeknd dropped his latest single, “Starboy,” topping the Billboard charts yet again— his studio album of the same name sold 209,000 copies in its first week of sales, and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Now, The Weeknd is about embark on a world tour this winter, kicking off in Sweden in February.
Continuing his momentum, The Weeknd is nominated for Male Artist of the Year at the 2017 iHeartRadio Music Awards! Be sure to grab your tickets to the awards show now, or tune into TBS, TNT, and truTV at 8pm ET/5pm PT on Sunday, March 5 to catch all of the action live. In the meantime, you can listen to all of your favorite The Weeknd tracks on demand, right here on iHeartRadio!
